Wednesday, April 17, 2013 7:00-9:00pm

No swimming for me yesterday, which was actually kind of nice as a recovery day for me. I spent the afternoon at the hospital for my wife's scheduled surgery to check out/remove a large "round spot" of sorts in her lower abdomen. The doctor thought it was endometriosis during office exams, but it was something else when he opened her up to look inside. It was a ball of some kind, almost golf ball sized, and was attached between her stomach muscle and fatty tissue layer, mostly attached to the fat. He removed it, said it was nothing cancerous or anything else to worry about. She was back home later in the afternoon, and is now recovering at home for a few days before going back to work. I'm being the good husband and just letting her lay in bed and watch tv. Kids are getting a lot of fast food lately for dinner, 'cause it's easier.

10 x 150 Free Pull @ 2:00 - Finally!! A REAL pull set!!
started at 1:40, dropped to 1:36/1:37s, and last one 1:34
We ended up doing 11, since someone miscounted (me), but it was all good. Jared and I would've gladly done that set for the next hour without much complaint
(1650/3250)

12 x 50 Kick w/ board @ 1:10 (3 of each stroke)
(600/3850)

Main Set:

This is something I think PWB would love to do for his online workouts one day...
3 x "Super 500s" @ 9:00 - take :10 rest after each "segment"

25 Free Sprint

50 Fly

25 Free Sprint

75 Back

25 Free Sprint

100 Breast

25 Free Sprint

75 Back

25 Free Sprint

50 Fly - this final 50 feels like the end of a 200 Fly!

25 Free Sprint

We were finishing each 500 around 7:30-7:40 or so. Got a fair amount of rest, but having a fast 15 year old right behind you, and a 17 year old and another 15 year old behind him keeps you moving...even when you want to quit.
(1500/5350)

Looks like you just need to hang with that Bryce kid and you'll be golden. Have fun. You have plenty of guys to push you.

Last year, believe it or not, I came in 2nd to Bryce in the distance pentathlon races. Imagine that! He's very quick, and doesn't hold back for any meets. In a 200 Back race last November, he went a 1:50, and nearly lapped me!
***The 200 Free is the only event where my lifetime best time is still faster than his times.

This year the meet is a whole lot more populated, which is a good thing. Lots of fun races coming.

Yeah, it's a good thing...I guess (kidding).
My feet are all blistered up from my time out of the pool and not using fins on a daily basis while we were on vacation. I think I'll just go without them for the next two weeks on my lead up to Nationals (to let my feet heal). Paddles and buoy is where the true power is!!!

I hate buoys! It's the one toy I never use. Uh, it's almost 3 weeks until Nats.

I know! But I'm counting it as after my beatdown from the age groupers on Sunday. Plus the weekend prior to Nats here is Apple Blossom weekend, the biggest festival of the year here, and there won't be any swimming Fri, Sat, Sun that weekend, then a couple days of super taper, overnight flight, 1650 on Thursday, and other non-miserable non-sprinter events on Friday and Saturday. Well, I am doing the 100 Free, but that's cause I'm getting 6 events done before getting back on the plane outta there!